1. Winning short story collection
will be published by Livingston Press
at the University of West Alabama, in
simultaneous library binding and trade paper editions. Winning entry will
receive $1000, plus our standard royalty contract, which includes 100
copies of the book.

2. Author must not have book
of short fiction published at time of entry, though novels are okay. In keeping with Tartt’s biography, we are
looking for an author who has yet to publish a fiction collection.

3. Stories may have been previously published by
magazines or in anthologies, though the author should have all rights. Magazines will be
acknowledged. Include a list of publications, if so desired.

4. Manuscripts must be typewritten, and we will
ask for a computer file in Windows/Mac Word from the winning author and from the
finalists for our anthology.

8. No manuscripts will be returned.
Please send only a copy. You may include an SASE for acknowledgement of
receipt, or simply use your cancelled check to indicate such. We notify
contestants of receipt as soon as the contest entry date has passed. We also
notify all entrants of the winner and those picked for the anthology.

9. Winner announced in late spring, with
publication in next spring.

10. Winner must be an American citizen; work
must be in English.

11. Style and content of manuscripts are
completely open.

12. Finalists will be considered for our regular
publication schedule and for our Tartt Anthology.

13. Send manuscripts and check to :

Livingston Press

The University of West
Alabama

Station 22

Livingston, Alabama 35470

Winner of next year’s award
will be announced in May.

PAST
WINNERS: first
Melissa Fraterrigo The Longest Pregnancy

second Philip Cioffari A History of Things Lost or Broken

third Xujun Eberlein
Apologies Forthcoming

fourth Stacia Saint Owens
Auto-Erotica

fifth
M. O. Walsh
A Prospect of Magic

sixth Kurt Jose Ayau
The Brick Murder:
A Tragedy and other stories

seventh Josie Sigler
The Galaxie and Other Rides

eighth John Oliver Hodges
The Love Box

ninth Tara Mantel
Elemental

Past Runner ups: third Carol Manley
Church Booty

seventh Eric Sasson Margins of Tolerance

seventh Robert McVeyWe Have a Pie

ninth Betty Jean Tucker
On a darkling Plain

ninth Gregg Cusick
Halfway Again

PAST
TARTTS STORIES: For a complete list, see the Tartt books, under
fiction.

Purpose:
Though Ruby Pickens Tartt worked for the Works Project Association in collecting
slave narratives in Alabama, and though she was published in several literary
magazines, her work was only collected under her name and published
posthumously. Accordingly, we are hoping to give a beginning fiction writer a
chance for publication. All styles considered: we are in the South, not
particularly of it.